President Joe Biden recently gave an update on his treatment for metastatic prostate cancer. A urologist explains ways to ...

When actress Christina Applegate revealed her stage 1 breast cancer diagnosis in 2008, she made a bold decision to undergo a double mastectomy despite having cancer in only one breast. Years later, ...

Staging means finding out how far colon cancer has spread in your body. Physicians group colon cancers into stages I (1) through IV (4), with stage I being the least advanced and stage IV being the ...

Breast cancer is a type of cancer that starts growing in the breast tissue. Healthcare providers classify breast cancer into five stages, stage 0 to stage 4. The stage indicates how advanced the ...

Stage 3 colon cancer has spread to the lymph nodes or through the wall of your colon. Doctors commonly treat it with surgery followed by chemotherapy. The most common staging system for colon cancer ...

Hodgkin lymphoma (formerly known as Hodgkin disease), which involves an abnormal type of lymphocyte called Reed-Sternberg cells Non-Hodgkin lymphoma, which does not contain Reed-Sternberg cells Both ...

Oropharyngeal cancer is the most common type of throat cancer. After your diagnosis, you will learn the stage of the cancer. The stage lets you know how far, if at all, the cancer has spread from the ...

Stage 2 ovarian cancer is localized to the pelvis, with substages 2A and 2B indicating specific spread patterns. Diagnosis involves physical exams, imaging, blood tests, and biopsy to confirm cancer ...